Carousel '92. The world keeps spinning around..

High-energy rock/metal song from 1992 about the greek god of the sea, Triton. We need more songs about Aquatic Deities! Wailing guitar work. I must have been practicing alot at this point, and listening to Queensryche.

An allegorical song about a girl named Illusion. This song was finally put together in 1991 from different scraps that were lying around... a melody from over here, a verse from a demo there.. a glance at a notebook where she had scribbled her teenage daydream. All coming together in a burst of inspired work and set to a reggae-esque backbeat.. recently I went to great lengths to recover this tape.

I wrote this song and first recorded it when I was 13. By 16 i had recorded three versions of it. This was the fourth. I loved the energy of this song so I kept recording it, trying different arranging and production approaches every time. With the help of John's backing vox and the Korg M-1 sequencer, fourth time was a charm.

"All is calm and still..."

There is a still resonance I found with the D-10s high frequency organ and the low reverberating rumbles. I fell in love with it in '90 on "Atlantic Reign". There's lot's of space there....and I used this sound on probably 50% of the stuff I recorded from '90-'94.I suppose it's good to have little trademarks.I was also lucky to have a really good quality reverb - roland DEP-5 and I used it liberally. This is a mix of the two middle tracks of "Three Before Seven". The full version with drums and lead guitar will follow shortly. meanwhile track 2 & 3 are fun to listen to by themselves.

'92 - Theme song for my high school's cable TV news show. The fabulous Roland D-10 featured here in all it's Synthy glory. Leaning heavily on the Big Ol Brass patch, edited a bit to get that wonderful 80's-esque sawtooth synth sound.:-)

An allegorical song about a girl named Illusion. This song was finally put together in 1991 from different scraps that were lying around... a melody from over here, a verse from a demo there.. a glance at a notebook where she had scribbled her teenage daydream. All coming together in a burst of inspired work and set to a reggae-esque backbeat.. recently I went to great lengths to recover this tape.